1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/util-linux/mkfs_ext2.c b/util-linux/mkfs_ext2.c
index 44fb40250..cf40c20eb 100644
--- a/util-linux/mkfs_ext2.c
+++ b/util-linux/mkfs_ext2.c
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ int mkfs_ext2_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
                 &reserved_percent, NULL, NULL, &label, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
         argv += optind; // argv[0] -- device
 
-        // check the device is a block device
+        // open the device, check the device is a block device
         xmove_fd(xopen(argv[0], O_WRONLY), fd);
         fstat(fd, &st);
         if (!S_ISBLK(st.st_mode) && !(option_mask32 & OPT_F))
@@ -225,11 +225,11 @@ int mkfs_ext2_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
 
         // check if it is mounted
         // N.B. what if we format a file? find_mount_point will return false negative since
-        // it is loop block device which mounted!
+        // it is loop block device which is mounted!
         if (find_mount_point(argv[0], 0))
                 bb_error_msg_and_die("can't format mounted filesystem");
 
-        // open the device, get size in kbytes
+        // get size in kbytes
         kilobytes = get_volume_size_in_bytes(fd, argv[1], 1024, /*extend:*/ !(option_mask32 & OPT_n)) / 1024;
 
         bytes_per_inode = 16384;